COMMUNITY CENTER
POL ICY CLARIFIED
Jesse Reynolds Announces
Times Center Will Re
main Open
The policies governing the use
of the city’s Comunity center at
Second and Orange streets, which
is located in the old USO building,
were announced yesterday by
Jesse Reynolds, city recreation
director.
Director Reynolds said that the
center would be operated by the
City Recreation department from
9 a. m. to 11 p. m. daily, and that
sleeping ascomodations would be
available for the military and
naval personnel as the needs arise
on Friday and Saturday nights.
The facilities at the center will
be available for use by community
groups and meetings during the
day, and programs will be plan
ned and facilities available for
adult groups and individuals not
in school on evening from Monday
through Thursday.
Programs will be conducted and
facilities will be available for
school age children after school
in the afternoons and on Friday
nights.
Programs will also be planned
and conducted by the USO and
facilities will be available on
Saturday's, Sundays, and holi
days.
Non-resident groups, those ex
pecting special grivffeges or those
befitting financially who may ar
range to use the facilities, will be
expected to pay for special priv
ileges or a rental fee as may be
arranged.
Director Reynolds said that
games and program equipment
may be borrowed from the center
by recognized groups for use at
outings, picnics, church programs,
civic clubs, and similiar com
munity groups arrangement and
payment of a deposit which will
be refunded upon return of the
items.
An advisory committee, com
posed of outstanding citizens in
terested in a board program of
activities, will help to determine
recreation interests of the com
munity.
World War I Mate
Of Wilmingtonians
Schedules Reunion
A telegram received yesterday
by G. Pearlie McKeithan, 24 North
Harrison street, from Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Defenbaugh, of Peoria,
111., reported that they would ar
rive in Wilmington for a reunion
with Defenbaugh’s comrades in
arms in the Second Trench Mor
tar Battalion, which was organiz
ed at Fort Caswell, and which
served on the Western Front in
France during World War I.
Defenbaugh attended the first I
reunion of the Second Trench Mor- i
tar battalion, which gathered at '
Fort Caswell a short time before
World War II. He was a comrade
of Sheriff C. David Jones, top
sergeant of Battery “C”. and he
also served along with J. Kyle
Bannerman, Andrew H. Harriss,
Harry T. Lewis, M. B. Register,
and other Wilmingtonians.
Mr. and Mrs. Defenbaugh ex
pect to be in Wilmington for a
week or ten days.
Former Fayetteville
Man’s Body Is Found
GAINSVILLE. Ga„ Sept. 7 —(UlR)
— State police said that the bqdy
of a man. identified as Curtis Dor
man. 71, formerly of Fayetteville,
N. C., has been found in woods
near her.
Dorman has been missing for
seven months, when .he left Fay
etteville to visit his daughter in
Gainsville. Ga., the bus on which
he was riding stopped briefly for
repairs, and Dorman was believed
to have wandered off and lost his
way.
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Jarman Drug Store.
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Futrelle’s Drug Store.
Saunders Drug Store.
Greeniield Drug Store.
T W Wood & Sons Seed Store,
Carl Marshburn Grocery.
Paul Marshburn Grocery.
H L. Herring Grocery
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George’s Food Store.
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L* L. Mills Grocery.
W D Mills Grocery
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7-Mile Grocery
Finlay Carr, Wallace.
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Bokenhagen Grocery.
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Newell’s Soda Shop, W’ville Beach.
| Roberts Grocery, Wrlghtsville Beach
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Big Poultry Plant
Planned In Willard
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Twelve thousand dollars is being
expended in the construction of a
larger poultry plant at the Experi
ment station in the Coastal Plain
Station at Willard, Pender county.
Dr. Charles Deering, head of the
station, announced yesterday.
Dr. Deering reported that the
new poultry buildings now in course
of construction are the first of the
two which he hopes will be com
pleted and in use by winter.
The structure now building is the
first of five projected buildings
under the program for enlarge
ment of the poultry plant, he said.
The last session of the legislature
appropriated $12,000 for use in en
larging the poultry plant, and the
present plans for poultry work are
so extensive that additional money
will be sought from the next legis
lature to carry on the work.
City’s Newest Glass
Shop To Open Monday
Wilmington’s newest glass shop,
the Atlantic Glass company, will
open Monday at 108 North Water
slreet. featuring a line of all types
of glass and flat glass work for
the store, office, home and auto
mobile.
D. H. White, formerly of Dur
ham, is the owner and operator
of the new concern. In announc
ing his new business. White, who
has had 20 years experience in
the trade, stated that many types
of glass were still hard to obtain,
but that shipments were scheduled
to arrive daily and he hoped to
have ample stocks soon to meet
all requirements.
Inquest Into Death
Of Negro Scheduled
Acting Coroner E. L. Strickland
announced yesterday that an in
quest would be held at 7:30 o'clock
Monday night in the grand jury
room in the courthouse to deter
mine the responsibility for the
death of Fred Brown, 48. Negro.
914 Queen street, who died Friday
night at 11 o'clock in Community
hospital.
Brown is reported to have died
as the result of injuries received
when he was struck by an automo
bile allegedly driven by Henry Lee
Johnson, Negro, on Seventh street,
between Ann and Nun. on Aug. 26.
CITY WATER PUMPS
CARRY HEAVY LOAD
City Limits Extension
Boosts Annual Output Of
Pumping Station
The annua* -.-on submitted yes.
terdav to City Manager J. R. Ben
son by W. F. Evans, Jr., superin
tendent of water and sewerage,
shows that 1,643,270,000 gallons of
water were pumped by the city
pumping station during the year
ending June 30.
The report shows a decrease of
163.940.000 gallons in the number
of gallons pumped during the year
as compared with the previous fis
cal period, but an increase of 83,
270.000 gallons over the total for
the 1944 fiscal year.
“The extension of the city limits
on Jan. 1, 1946, greatly increased
the operations of the water and
sewerage department,’’ Evans re
ported. “in that we were given the
task of maintaining *th» existing
sceptic tangks and grease traps ir,
the new areas.
“This program was inaugurated
on an optional basis and several
hundred applicants signed up im
mediately for the service. This
number gradually increased until
at the end of the year we were
maintaining- approximately 534 in
stallations.
“In the latter part of June, the
city purchased the Sunset Park
water works system, and it was
necessary to tie in this water sys
tem to the city distribution system
before July 1.
“This work was accomplished
several days before that date. In
addition to supplying an adequate
amount of warer in this area, eight
fire hydrants were installed along
the Carolina Beach road and Cen
tral Boulevard, which gives part of
this section fire protection and
about 50 per cent reduction in their
insurance rates.”
The report shows that there was
a decrease in the number of kilo
wat hours of current consumed dur.
ing the fiscal year, during which
2.518.500 kwh were used, as com
pared with 2.703.830 for the previ
ous fiscal year and 2.272.912 for the
year ending June 30.1944.
There was an increase in the
amount of alum used, according to
the report, which showed 454,950
pounds used for the 1945-1946 fis
cal year, as compared with 445,
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Front and Grace Sts.
275 and 363,611 pounds for the 1944.
1945 and 1943-1944 fiscal periods,
respectively.
The total poundage of lime used
during the last fiscal year was list,
ed at 284,850 as . compared with
267,915 and 262,932 pounds for the
two previous fiscal years.
During the year the water and
sewerage systems were increased
to the following extent:
1,080 feet of two-inch water
main; 125 feet three-inch water
main; 2,470 feet six-inch water
main; 1.450 feet eight-inch water
main and 420 feet of 12-inch water
main.
The sewer system was increased
by 925 feet of six-inch main and
1,470 feet of eight-inch sewer main.
During the year the department
rebuilt approximately nineteen
blocks of the water distribution sys
tem.
Some of the outstanding main
tenance jobs were: meters — re
placed 412 stopped meters; install
ed 198 meters on unmetered serv
ices; removed 20 meters not in
use; installed 34 meters on old
services; removed and replaced 27
meters taken out for testing; re
paired 133 meter leaks; replaced
32 broken meter boxes; reset 121
boxes; and removed three metters
for non-payment.
Relayed 44 water services, re
paired 168 broken services, repair
ed 31 leaks in watermains, repair
ed 20 hydrants, removed two hy
drants. The new services included
the installation of 129 new services,
71 new sewer laterals, and 11 new
f:re hydrants.
Linder Is Appointed
To Engineering Post
Announcement has been made of
the appointment of C. P. Linder to
be chief engineer of the South At
lantic Division, U S. Engineers, by
Colonel George W. Gillette, acting
Division ’ Engineer.
Recently separated from the
service as a Colonel in the Corps
of Engineers, Linder as chief en
gineer will report directly to the
Division Engineer, and will have
engineering supervision throughout
the southeastern states over main
tenance, improvement of navaga
tion of rivers and harbors, and in
ter-coastal waterways and the
supervision of all engineering for
flood-control.
A native of Wisconsin, Linder was
graduated from that state’s uni
versity with a B.S. in Engineering,
in 1925, receiving his masters de
gree there in 1932. He was first
employed by the U. S. Engineers
in 1932.
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